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DNC Spokesgal Trashes Key Bin Laden-gate Witness Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri blasted the account of key bin Laden-gate witness Mansoor Ijaz late Monday, calling him "a crackpot" and saying his claim that he negotiated a 1996 deal to extradite Osama bin Laden from Sudan to the U.S. was "a joke." "He's lying," Palmieri told WOR radio's Jay Diamond. "The guy has absolutely no credibility. You'll see that you never see him on television anymore once he was outed as being a fraud." In fact, Ijaz turned up Friday night on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" to outline his charges against the Clinton administration, a program Palmieri apparently missed. Last Wednesday, the former Clinton contributor announced that he was prepared to testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the ex-president turned down repeated deals he brokered to turn bin Laden over. (See: Bin Laden-gate Witness Dares Dems: Depose Me on 9-11 Clinton Cover-up) But the DNC spokeswoman charged that Ijaz, the single largest Muslim contributor to Clinton's 1996 campaign, "has made up or greatly exaggerated his connections." Palmieri told Diamond that she was the highest-ranking White House official that the Pakistani-American donor had ever met with. Before becoming DNC spokeswoman, Palmieri worked for the Clinton White House for eight years. She seemed to hedge a bit, however, when asked specifically whether there was an offer from the Sudanese to turn bin Laden over. "Not through Mansoor Ijaz, there was not," she told WOR without elaborating. "I'm really appalled at this," interjected FrontPageMagazine.com editor David Horowitz, who was on hand for the debate. "This is what the Clinton administration did to all the women Clinton abused," he complained. Noting that Ijaz was a member on the Council on Foreign Relations, Horowitz contended that he had donated over $250,000 to the Clinton campaign and that his allegations had been corroborated by British newspapers. Still, Palmieri was unmoved. "It's a joke. He's a crackpot," she concluded. newsmax.com